Every day of March and what happened on it, in any year, with the month’s most significant events.
Earthquakes
A magnitude 9.1 earthquake struck Honshu, Japan. With the tsunami it caused, it killed 18,423 people, injured 6,167, destroyed 123,661 houses and did $220 billion in damage.
Tsunamis
A tsunami caused by a magnitude 9.1 earthquake struck Honshu Island, Japan, with a maximum water height of 39.26 meters. It killed 18,423 people, injured 6,167, destroyed 123,661 houses and did $220 billion in damage.
Earthquakes
1 undersea megathrust earthquake occurred in the Pacific Ocean, 72 km (45 mi) east of the Oshika Peninsula of the Tōhoku region of Japan. It lasted approximately six minutes and caused a tsunami.
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Tornadoes
An F5 tornado touched down in Reynolds, Iron, Madison counties, Missouri and tracked 217.4 miles, 1,200 yards wide at its widest, killing 695 and injuring 2,027. From Grazulis's record of significant tornadoes: Annapolis, MO to Murphysboro, IL to Princeton, IN.
Earthquakes
The 893 Dvin earthquake occurred on 28 December 893 at around midnight. It had a magnitude of approximately 6 and a maximum intensity of approximately IX (Violent) on the Mercalli intensity scale.
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Earthquakes
A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck Myanmar (Burma), Thailand. It killed 3,815 people, left 116 missing, injured 5,145, destroyed 12,441 houses and did $11 billion in damage.
Earthquakes
A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck Napo Province, Quito, Tulcan, Ecuador. It killed 5,000 people and did $1.5 billion in damage.
Earthquakes
A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck La Guaira, Venezuela. It killed 26,000 people and did severe (about $5 to $25 million) damage. It caused a tsunami.
Tsunamis
A tsunami caused by a magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck La Guaira, Venezuela. It killed 26,000 people and did severe (about $5 to $25 million) damage.
Tornadoes
An F5 tornado touched down in Hinds, Rankin, Scott counties, Mississippi and tracked 202.5 miles, 900 yards wide at its widest, killing 58 and injuring 518.
Earthquakes
A magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck Bucharest, Romania. It killed 1,641 people, injured 10,500 and did $2 billion in damage.
Earthquakes
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Earthquakes
9 earthquake struck the Sagaing Region of Myanmar, with an epicenter close to Mandalay, the country's second-largest city. The shaking caused by this strike-slip shock reached a maximum Modified Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme).
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Earthquakes
0. Up to 2,956 people were killed and 7,806 were injured.
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Earthquakes
A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck SW, Honshu, Japan. It killed 3,022 people, injured 3,295, destroyed 15,594 houses and did $40 million in damage. It caused a tsunami.
Gathered from this site’s archives: the tornado record (NOAA SPC, and Grazulis before 1950), IBTrACS and the National Hurricane Center, NOAA NCEI’s Storm Events Database, Regional Snowfall Index, billion-dollar disasters list, State Climate Extremes Committee and hazard databases, USGS, NIFC, GFZ Potsdam’s Kp index (CC BY 4.0), the National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma, and Wikidata (CC0), with article leads from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0, each credited where it appears. Rebuilt 2026-09-24.